for those here that aren't familiar with Apache style release votes, here is some background.
When we vote on a release candidate, we are saying two things: that we believe it to be valid from a licensing perspective, and that we think the code is in a good technical state to be released. The former is more important than the latter. If you are considering voting, please do. Please download the artefact, and review it. Check license headers and licence attribution, and then build the code and run it. Then vote! Strictly speaking, it is the vote of members of the Incubator PMC that count. However, demonstrating that the community is behind the release is also crucially important, so whoever you are, committer or not, programmer or not, please download the artefact and review some of it. Thanks! Upayavira